Dear Colleen - All, Thanks to you and everyone involved for all your/their hard work on my/our behalf in posting the records submitted by Mr. Glenn Geisheimer and others. That being said, I looked under the following two lists but was not able to find any of my (known) Dielman BAUER records: born circa 1718 in or near Hesse, Dormstadt or Cassell, Germany, and married Elizabeth SCHMIDT . . . or their son, Dielman BAUER, born circa 1744 in or near Crumbach, Hesse, Dormstadt or Cassell, Germany. I do not know their uplines, other than Elizabeth SCHMIDT's father was said to be a Nicholas SCHMIDT. Anyone got any suggestions/answers? German Birth Records: 1651-1905 http://bowercommunity.com/homestead/gerbirthsNDX.htm German Marriage Records Index: 1651-1901 http://bowercommunity.com/homestead/germarrNDX.htm Thanks, Ron Myers (San Diego) Colleen Pustola wrote: > Hi family, > > I have TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS in this message. We have TWO cousins to thank > tonight and Canadian and German researchers are having their day in the > sun. :) > > First, an addition to the vital records section that I failed to point > out to all of you last night in my first message... Bruce Bowers > (bowers6254@telocity.com) extracted 401 Bauer, Baur, Bower and Bowers > death records from the Ontario, Canada index for the years 1869 to > 1919. These records are the first international death records at the > site and we are indeed privileged to house them at the Homestead. It > isn't always a small feat to read a microfilm and pull each record out, > but Bruce did that for us. Bruce, we thank you so much for giving us > your time and sharing the data with us. YOU ARE VERY APPRECIATED!! > > You'll find the index in the vital records section (in the main hallway) > at Bower Family Homestead <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. > > Second, the German marriage database I told you about last night is now > online. Once again, we owe our thanks to cousin Glenn Geisheimer > <germanic42@home.com>. This second database has records dating from > 1651-1901 with thousands of Bauer, Baur, etc. names. The marriage > records online tonight total 9,452 for a total of nearly 20,000 > individuals. There are NO Bower or Bowers spellings. I should also > mention here that those of you with the BOWERS spelling, and of German > extraction, should check BOTH databases for BAUEREN and BAUREN. > > I have broken the marriage database down into 22 files to keep the size > down but > they are still rather large. Please expect a wait for each selected > file to > load, depending on your modem. > > As with the Ontario death records, you'll find the data base in the > vital records section (in the main hallway). Click on the Marriage > Records link there. This time I'm thinking ahead... :) ...I have the > column definitions on the marriage records index page already. > > I still have two more databases for Germany to complete - > > * medieval births (1535-1650) > * medieval marriages (1651-1901) > > I will _try_ to get them online tonight. If I can't, please don't look > for them until possibly Wednesday. Tomorrow morning I begin the GEDCOM > update. If you haven't submitted your GEDCOM and wanted to, you still > have until about 9 a.m. U.S. MST to get it in. > > Lots of us should be really happy tonight after making a load of finds > in the German birth records. How many more will be happy after the > Ontario deaths and German marriages, hmmmm....? :) Bruce, Glenn... > thank you so much. A lot of cousins are going to break through their > lines because of the time you both took to extract records for us. Our > appreciation to both of you is indeed heartfelt. > > I wish you all sweet dreams! Good night! :) > > Colleen > > ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>.